Bottle-carrying handle.



L. JOHNSON & G. HOTTBR.

BOTTLE CARRYING HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.13,1914.

1 1 16,290. Patented Nov. 3, 1914.

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LOUIS JOHNSON AND enonen HOTTER, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

BOTTLE-CARRYING- HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3, 191 l.

Application flied April 13. 1914. Serial No. 831.576.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, Lorne JOHNSON and GEORGE Herrera, citizens of the United States, residing at St. Paul, inthe county of Ramsey and. State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful. Improvements in Bottle-Carrying Handles, of which the following is a'specilication.

Our invention relates to in'iproremcnts in.

bottle carrying handles adapted particularly for use upon bottles or jugs having at the top an annular bead or flange, such as the milk bottles in common use, its object being to provide a carrying handle which cannot become detached from the bottle by the ordinary movements to which the bottle or handle is subjected in use. but which can,

side elevation of the bottle carrier in unlocked or released position.

In the drawings the bottle carrying handle is shown applied to a bottle Aihaving at the top an annular flange or bead B. It comprises two connected and interlocking memberagnade preferably of bent wire, namely. an attaching collar or clamp member 2 adapted to embrace the bottle neck and a carrier or bail member having a handle portion. The collar or clamp member is bent upon itself and twisted to lorm a closed loop or eye. 3 at about its middle point. and two outwardly and oppositely bowed semicircular clamping arms rlaptedto lit about the neck of the bottle. 'llhcse arms terminote. one in a loop or eye i, and. the other in an outwarl'lly projecting latch 'lhe bail member is bent to term two upright arms (3 and 7 connected at the top by a. handle portion 5 upon. which is a hand piece 9. One oi. these arms, here designated as i5, is straight and formed at the bottom with a looped eye dial eye [5 of the attaching collar, while the other arm, here designated as 7, is bent as 10, which passes through the mehereinafter (lQSCllbtLQl and formed at the bottom with an'eyc 11 which engages the terminal eye :l upon one of the arms 2 of the collar member. The bout arm 7 of the bail member is formed with two bends, a rather open bend 12 at about its middle point, and a deep and narrow bend 13 adjacent the loop '11. Both bends are projected in the same lateral direction, but the bend 1?, is inclined downwardly in order to form a. holding catch for the latch 5 oi the collar member.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings the parts of the bottle carric' are shown in locked position with the latch 5 oi the clan'iping; member lodged in the bend or catch 13 of the bail member. To arrange the parts for insertion over the flanged top of a bottle, the latch 5 is lifted with the finger and sprung up out of the bend or catch 13 so that it will lodge in the middle bond 1? oi the bail member 7. \Vhen the parts are in this position the clamping member will be tilted so that the arm which carries the latch will be considerably below the other arm.

To apply the device to the bottle the lower arm of the clamping member is inserted under the flange liot' the bottle, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The handle is then bent backwardly to carry the upper arm of the clamping member over the opposite side of the flange. When this has been done the parts will stand in the position shown in Fig. 3, except that the clamping: arms will both lie around the neck of the bottle underneath the flange [3. The latch 5 is then sprung down by the operator into the catch or bend lfl lo; shown in Fin. i2 ol the drawings, thus clamping; the collar m mbers about the neck of the bottle underneath the llai'in'o ll hcn the clamping members are 'thus locked about the ncclt ol' thzbottle the latch cannot become tllfilmllfill by bending: the bail l)dl.l{\i'2ll(l.t l' forward. nor by any ordinary movements to which the bottlev or handle will be subjected in use. The clamp lug members an only be rclcascd'by placing one finger under the latch and another linger upon the loop land bending the handle backward. it will be observed that the loop 3 upon the collar lies in a horizontal plane, while the loop 10 upon the bail member passes through it in a transverse plane, so that the loops will bind when the handle is bent over, and prevent the handle moved from one bend to, the other.

We claim as our invention: i 1. A bottle carrying handle comprising a collar member and a bail member, the collar member having a medial eye and two 0ppositely out-bowed arms adapted to embrace the neck of the bottle, said armsvterminating one in an eye and the other in a latch, and the bail. member having two spaced arms pivotally secured to the medial andterminal eyes, respectively, of the collar member, the bail arm secured to said terminal eye being'bent downwardly andvl'aterally nea'r said eye to form a catch loop for said latch, whereby t0 allow the latch to be moved into and out of locking engagement v with the catch loop Without detachment of naaeo either" bail arnrfrom the eyes of the collar member.

2. A bottle carrying handle comprising a collar member and a bail-member, the collar member having a medial eye and two op positely out-bowed arms adapted to embrace the neck of a bottle and terminating one in an eye and the other in a latch and the bail member-having -two spaced arms pivotally secured to the respective eyes upon the collar member, one of said bail [arms being formed With two'lateral bends and an intermediate shoulder, the lower bend being positioned near the terminal eyeupon. the collar member and constituting a catch for said latch, said latch being capable of being sprung over said shoulder into one or other of said bends. v

In testimony whereof We afiix'our signatures in presence of tWo Witnesses. i

LQUIS JOHNSON Y. GEORGE HOTTER.

. Witnessesf ARTHUR P. Lorrrnor,

1 HHSWANSON. 

